Hi BitcoinTalk,
Thought I might see if there is any interest in creating a new blockchain explorer like Blockchain.info for Bitcoin, Litecoin and any other big alt-coins. It would have a wallet system similar to Blockchain.info, but with one crucial difference, it would support multiple crypto-currencies. This allows you to stop lugging around ten (or more) different damons and blockchains for all your favorite altcoins, but most of all, it stops dumb/lazy (I'm the latter
) people having all your money in Crypsy, just waiting for another Inputs.io fiasco.
Before you say that blockchain explorers already exist, I've yet to come across one with pushtx functionality (other that Blockchain.info).
And before the alt-coin haters come and throw rocks, I'd just like to say that all the alt-coins are interesting experiments with different parameters and algorithms, and I'd hate to see a alt-coin that could have been the future fall over from lack of support. All coins should have access to the same services like pools, blockchain explorers and wallets.
From my research, an obelisk server seems to do what we need it too. Add that to a Node.js front end and you have your service. The trickiest part is porting Libbitcoin and Obelisk to Litecoin/etc. SHA256 coins should be relatively simple as I think it's just some genesis block, magic byte and address prefix changes.
I'm thinking that starting the Bitcoin one first would be a good idea, as it would give us experience with Obelisk before we tackle the challenge of
If anyone is interesting in helping, don't be shy, post below. Oh, and the other thing is what sort of specs would you need for hosting? I would assume we could cope with a DigitalOcean $10/month (1GB RAM, 1 Core, 30GB Disk, 2TB Transfer) for now (for Bitcoin). Hopefully someone will fund us to get better servers (hint hint). Hope this all made sense, late at night here but thought I should get this out sooner than later.
TL;DR: I want to create something like Blockchain.info for multiple crypto-currencys (BTC/LTC/DOGE/maybe more?).